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Fifty years later, One-Dimensional Man looks more prescient than its author could have imagined.
The romantic obsessions of Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, and Marguerite Duras.
On Larry Siedentrop's Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism
Restoring genuine democracy must go beyond campaign finance.
A nineteenth-century memoir sheds light on the origins of the modern prison.
When narcissism was pathologized, reformers were labeled as narcissists and discontent swept under the rug. George Scialabba responds.
Evgeny Morozov answers questions about his new book
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